Word: scribbler
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EDMUND (Dean Stockwell), the younger brother, is O'Neill as he was, or fondly remembered he was, at 23: a sailor home from the sea with consumption, a secret scribbler who longed to be a poet but guessed he lacked the gift...
...asks him to dinner at her house. When he arrives, the door is opened by her ten-year-old daughter. To his surprise and relief, the hero feels like a father to the girl, and he soon begins to feel like a husband to her mother. Then a scandal scribbler reveals his past. He loses his job, the woman he loves, his will to live. "I can't go on!" he sobs to his doctor, who calmly replies: "You can try." As the picture ends, he is trying, and the widow is beginning...
...ruthless practitioner of Realpolitik, was shocked at the low moral code of writers. "If your work deserves statues," he wrote, "your conduct merits chains." Voltaire wrote to friends: "The King is an exceptional man-very attractive at a distance." The pair resumed their friendship later, since Frederick, an incorrigible scribbler of poor verse, could not bear to have anyone but Voltaire edit and polish his poems. As Author Nicolson succinctly puts it, "The literary vanity of soldiers passes human comprehension...
...less than 18% of the electorate had yet to make up its mind about how to vote in November. And Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop devoted an entire column to criticizing Gallup's methods. "In the newspaper trade," wrote Alsop, "it is usually considered bad form for one wretched scribbler to make remarks in print about the work of another. Yet an exception seems to be justified in the case of the inquiring Dr. George Gallup's important first poll after the national conventions...
...Powell's reforms had little charm for Jerry Myles, 44, six-time loser (burglary), sometime poem scribbler, and the prison yard's most flagrant homosexual. Nor did they change the attitude of Myles's closest friend, willowy, 19-year-old Lee Smart, who at 16 got 30 years for clubbing a man to death. Last week the pair conspired to set off one of the most harrowing riots in the recent years of trouble in the nation's prisons...